Tri-Edre GrandReporter - 1.5 User Guide

GrandReporter

User Guide

Licensing and Copyright Agreement

This software is Copyright ©2010 TED and ©TRI-EDRE.

Except as permitted under copyright law, no part of the program or this manual may be reproduced or distributed
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to make working copies of the software program, solely for your own use. No copy (original or working) may be

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the ninety (90) day period following the date of delivery of the Software to you. If the Software fails to meet the

specifications of the warranty set forth above, TRI-EDRE liability and your exclusive remedy will be replacement of
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................................................................................................................................Introduction 5

...................................................................................................................................Installation 5

................................................................................................................................................................Register GrandReporter 5

....................................................................................................................................Quick Tour 6

....................................................................................................................................................................................Main Window 6

........................................................................................................................................................................Bookmarks Window 7

..............................................................................................................GrandReporter Usage 8

.........................................................................................................................................................................................Preferences 8

.....................................................................................................................................................................GrandReporter Menu 8

.................................................................................................................................................................GrandReporter Queries 9

.....................................................................................................................................................................................Simple Query 9

...........................................................................................................................................................................Advanced Queries 9

Combined Queries

.......................................................................................................................................Queries status: Enabled or disabled 10

...........................................................................................................Queries Management 11

..............................................................................................................................................................................Update Queries 11

.....................................................................................................................................................................................Edit a Query 11

................................................................................................................................................................................Delete a Query 11

..........................................................................................................................................................................Groups of Queries 11

........................................................................................................................Queries' results 12

...........................................................................................................................................................Result Layout description 12

....................................................................................................................................................................................Results Tools 12

Mark as Read or Not Read
Sort Results Display

Add to Bookmarks
Hide Result

Hide Results Automatically
Unhide Result
Exclude Result
Set Rating

...............................................................................................................................................................Result Website Preview 14

.................................................................................................................................Bookmarks 15

..........................................................................................................................................Bookmarks Creation and Deletion 15

.........................................................................................................................................................................Lists of Bookmarks 15

Lists
Smart Lists

Editing Lists and Smart List

.......................................................................................................................................................................Sharing Bookmarks 16

E-mail Tab
PDF File Tab
Customize PDF Layout.

..............................................................................................................Advanced Functions 19

..................................................................................................................................Empty GrandReporter Internet Cache 19

.......................................................................................................................................................................................Help menu 19

Show Hints Again
Show Release Notes…
Send An E-mail to Support

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.............................................................................................................................................................................................Blacklist 20

Introduction
Exclusions List

Simple Exclusion
Regular Expression
Test Exclusions

...............................................................................Introduction to Regular Expressions 22

.............................................................................................................................................F.A.Q 22

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Introduction

GrandReporter lets you automatize searches over the internet. Create your own queries in GrandReporter, and it will
scan for new web information periodically.
As soon as a new page on one of the subjects that you want to survey is detected on the Internet, you will be
warned, and you can view and classify it, and save interesting pages in bookmarks.

You can create your own queries in GrandReporter for each of the subjects you are interested in and want to be
surveyed. You will be informed as soon as a new page related to one of your queries is detected on the Internet.

New pages are added in the request results.
GrandReporter displays and saves the pages found for each query. New pages are added as not yet read items. You

can view each page in the internal browser, set a rating to interesting pages, delete or classify pages. You can also
exclude certain web sites of your results.

Pages that you are interested in can be stored as bookmarks, so that you can retrieve them easily later. You can
create multiple lists and group them by themes. Classify is independent of the request that found the pages.

You can also create smart lists. Smart lists contents is automatically updated, based on the criteria you have set for
each smart list.

Installation

To install GrandReporter, simply drag and drop GrandReporter in the Applications folder on your Macintosh hard
disk.

When you download GrandReporter from TRI-EDRE's website, you will have a file called a Disk Images (.dmg)

When you double-click the disk image, a virtual disk will appear on your Desktop. Double-Click to open the virtual
disk, your will see this window:

Drag and drop GrandReporter to the Applications folder alias. You're done.

Register GrandReporter

At first Launch, GrandReporter will ask for your serial number. you can also use the menu GrandReporter>Register
to enter the serial number.

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Quick Tour

Welcome in GrandReporter. Let us present the Software interface.

Main Window

GrandReporter is simple to use. At the top of the main window, you can enter a new Query sentence. Then validate
by pressing the button "Add New Query".

This will add a new query in the first column on the left. Wait a few seconds. When the Query search is finished, a
bullet on the right will show how many results are available for this query. Click on the query to see available results

in the second column. Here, you can click on a result to display the web page in the third column.

Depending on how the result is interesting, for each result you can set a rating, hide the result or exclude the result.
Differences between these tools are explained later in this guide.

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Bookmarks Window

There are several ways to create bookmarks. Each time you set a rating for a result, a Bookmark is created. There is
also a button at the bottom of the second column in the Main Window. When you have Bookmarks, you can sort
them in the following BookMarks Window:

On the left, you can see Lists and Smart Lists. Use the "Plus" button at the bottom to create Lists. On the right, you
will find all bookmarks you created in the Main Window. You can zoom Bookmarks to see pages, or search a specific

page.

Select Bookmarks then drag and drop them to lists in order to sort them. The Library item will always show all your
bookmarks.

Select Bookmarks and click "Send Mail" button to automatically generate an e-mail message with URL of the
selected Bookmarks.